Originally published by our sister publication, Pain Medicine News
A team of Georgia clinicians has achieved a same-day discharge rate of higher than 98% following hip and knee arthroplasties—a benchmark they say can be reached by other institutions that choose to follow a strict set of preoperative, perioperative and postoperative protocols.
The key to such success, the researchers said, lies in addressing what they called the three most common areas of delay in discharge: surgeons,